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Sure, you are right that the goals are different. But good engineers respect the user. And that includes paying close and careful attention to client side perfo
by duckfruit 7y ago
Sure, you are right that the goals are different. But good engineers respect the user. And that includes paying close and careful attention to client side performance. While you may not be directly paying for it, crappy performance there will cause users to bail on you - then you won't need to worry about how much the server is costing you.
- kitsunesoba 7y agoIndeed, I think the notion that the user’s resources are “free” is deeply flawed. High load time, CPU usage, RAM usage, etc is merely tolerated, not accepted, by users depending on the value of your product, making whatever gains in productivity or reduction in expenses made by shoveling it all off onto the client more like a high interest loan than a freebie.